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> return 1 to the caller to indicate we did make an update. This (both in awk and python code) seems useless, as the return value from update() is not used any

> return 1 to the caller to indicate we did make an update. This (both in awk and python code) seems useless, as the return value from update() is not used anyhere. Am I missing something obvious?

benhoyt 3y ago
Yeah, it's used in the top-level update() call in the BEGIN block: if (update(ARGV[1]) == 0) print ARGV[1] " is up to date"
- teo_zero 3y ago
  Right, I missed that one, probably considered it a cosmetic feature!